Blacklocks (paywalled) – Arctic sea ice grew 27 percent last year, the Department of Environment reported yesterday. The figures contradicted claims by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna that the Arctic “is literally melting”…
h/t Ontario John
h/t PaulHarveyPage2
Take a look at a couple of sentences about climate change that appeared Thursday concerning the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling on the carbon tax.
Here’s one: “It is a threat of the highest order to the country, and indeed to the world.” And here’s another: “The undisputed existence of a threat to the future of humanity cannot be ignored.”
Who do you think produced these lines: Did they come from Greta Thunberg’s Twitter account? Or maybe they’re excerpts of a Greenpeace Canada press release? A statement from a Green Party MP, perhaps?
Nope. These theatrical flourishes were from the SCOC ruling itself. Right there in the text of the majority decision that ruled the federal government does indeed have the right to run roughshod over provincial jurisdiction and impose a carbon tax on provinces against their will. […]
Yet here we are seeing that language used by the highest court in the land in the text of a major ruling. And they’re not using this language as an aside. They’re using it as the crux of why they’re siding with the feds and doing what they acknowledge is the rare occurrence of rolling out the Peace, Order and Good Government clause as their legal justification.
We need a new country.
When you’re longing for the “good old days” of the Chretien government you know its bad.
My new study on the costs of a $170 carbon tax confirm results from a large group of studies 20 yrs ago on the costs of Kyoto. People are surprised at the new numbers bc the feds haven't been upfront about the impacts.https://t.co/4SGsSNeWb8
— Ross McKitrick (@RossMcKitrick) March 17, 2021
20 years ago the federal (Liberal) govt had separate teams in Finance, NRCan, Industry Can, academia and the private sector model and cost out policy options. They changed their plans based on the findings. Today there’s nothing from the feds except promotional pamphlets.
It amazes me how the Paris movie is a replay of the Kyoto movie. Set grand targets with no plan to get there, pretend it won’t cost anything and hide behind buzzwords about the low-carbon economy and green jobs. The difference is Back then Chretien let the various federal departments work independently, provide multiple perspectives and publish their analyses. That led to bursting the rhetorical bubble and debating realistic cost estimates. Today all we get is the rhetorical bubble.
They’re not going to make that mistake again!
They want us all dead.
Fires burned 10% of Australia’s land surface on average every year in 20th century. In this century, it burned 6% (2001-19)
We now have the data for 2019-20, the year with “Australia ablaze”: 4% (3.95%)
h/t Joe
A joint report released Wednesday by the U.S.-based Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and Helsinki-based Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found China built over three times as much coal-fired electrical power capacity in 2020 as the rest of the world combined.
Broadview, -41.4 (previous record was -37.2 set in 1967)
Coronach, -37.2 (previous record was -33.1 set in 2020)
Elbow, -40.1 (previous record was -33.3 set in 1973)
Hudson Bay, -41.9 (previous record was -40.6 set in 1974)
Indian Head, -41.1 (previous record was -38.9 set in 1906)
Kindersley, – 36.4 (previous record was -34.4 set in 1951)
Last Mountain Lake, -42.5 (previous record was -34.0 set in 1990)
Lucky Lake, -36.3 (previous record was -31.7 set in 1973)
Meadow Lake, -37.6 (previous record was -37.5 set in 2020)
Melfort, -41.7 (previous record was -39.4 set in 1936)
Nipawin, -43.9 (previous record was -42.8 set in 1936)
Rockglen, -32.9 (previous record was -31.2 set in 2020)
Rosetown, -38.1 (previous record was -36.7 set in 1922)
Watrous, -41.5 (previous record was -35.1 set in 2020)
Weyburn, -38.4 (previous record was -33.9 set in 1970)
Wynyard, -39.2 (previous record was -33 set in 2007)
Yorkton, -39.2 (previous record was -35.6 set in 1951)
| Today some scientists like claiming the present is warmer than at any time in the past 1000 years and suggest the Greenland ice sheets are rapidly melting. But the results of the core reconstruction show that it was warmer in the past, some 80 years ago. |
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More: All 254 Texas counties under winter storm warning as arctic blast heads east
Mosquero, NM 10-Day Weather Forecast (h/t KAR)
Massachussets: The video shows David Ismay, Gov. Charlie Baker’s under secretary for climate change…
A Remarkable Decline in Landfalling Hurricanes:;
Last week a paper published in Science concluded that worldwide, “To date, there has been no firm evidence of global trends of the frequency of tropical cyclones with maximum wind speed above the hurricane-force wind (64 knots) at landfall.” That finding, which confirms our work, was based on data since 1982. But what happens when we take a look further back in time? What we find might surprise you.
Falls mainly in sheets of snow and ice;
Spain registered its coldest temperature in recorded history on Wednesday, January 6 with the Catalan Pyrenees logging a bone-chilling -34.1C (-29.3F).
Yesterday’s reading busted the all-time low temperature record for the Iberian Peninsula–which also includes Portugal. The record had stood since February 2, 1956 (solar minimum of cycle 18) when a reading of -32C (-25.6F) was observed in Estany-Gento, located in the province of Lleida.
Japan, December 17th.
